Great news: Lower Sunday newsstand price

Here is news you don’t hear from businesses everyday: We’re lowering the price of the Sunday Democrat sold in stores and newspaper vending machines.
Beginning this Sunday, the newsstand price goes to $2 per copy.
To be plain, only the price is being reduced, not the value. We’ll still offer the highest quality journalism in the region, the most in-depth and watchdog journalism, great features and sports reporting and advertising for deals at places you want to shop.
We work hard to produce the best newspapers in print and on our digital sites every day. But the Sunday Democrat is our premier edition. It is when we have the most consumer and advertising sales. It includes coupons worth hundreds of dollars in savings, paying for itself many times over.
It has the most pages and features for the whole family, including our full-color comics and other features for the kids and young at heart.
It is tailored to our readers’ lifestyles. We target our biggest and most-important, exclusive local journalism to Sunday because we know it is when most people have the most time to spend consuming news. Most importantly, it’s when families and friends have time for conversations about significant news and issues.
These are the things that no one else in our region can or will do. These are things that only our team of experienced and professional journalists has the ability to tackle.
The last few years, most of our award-winning public service journalism and investigative projects come from reporting in the Sunday Democrat. This is the journalism we take the most pride in, whether it is about what is going on in City Hall or the County Courthouse, the state Capitol Building; important health issues, such as breast cancer and infant mortality; or the wellbeing of local rivers and lakes due to ecological and environmental challenges.
Sure, we know shoppers likewise look for good deals every day, but we know Sunday is special, the day when the most shoppers are looking at our pages and inserts for the best deals, whether they looking for big-ticket items like a new car or furniture, headed to the mall for someone special’s birthday or they just need a new pair of shoes.
We still very much believe in the power of the printed newspaper every day and have no doubt that the vast majority of our readers do, too. But even our most dedicated digital and mobile users like the experience of having the printed newspaper in their hands on Sundays.
You told us we needed to help make that possible without reducing the quality or cutting back anything in the paper.
You spoke.
The management of the Democrat listened.
And it’s kind of nice to have things work out as they should.You can send comments by clicking on Bob Gabordi’s blog on Tallahassee.com, e-mailing him at bgabordi@tallahassee.com, sending a private message on Tallahassee.com and Twitter @bgabordi. You can also find links to his blogs on Facebook. He’s also on LinkedIn and Google+. His mailing address is Bob Gabordi, Executive Editor, Tallahassee Democrat, P.O. Box 990, Tallahassee, FL 32302. His telephone number is 850-599-2177.

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You can send comments by clicking on Bob Gabordi’s blog on Tallahassee.com or Move.Tallahassee.com, e-mailing him at bgabordi@tallahassee.com, sending a private message on Tallahassee.com and Twitter @bgabordi. You can also find links to his blogs on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. His mailing address is Bob Gabordi, Executive Editor, Tallahassee Democrat, P.O. Box 990, Tallahassee, FL 32302. His telephone number is 850-599-2177.